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Any information on how to manage AD printers, we do a self service model by using the printer search tool native in Windows but clearly not working on Autopilot devices, this or some other way to add printers would be great.
- Today, it's painful. You can user Add-Printer and target AD print queues, but only in the user context. (If you "Add-Printer" as an admin, the user can't see it). This works if your users are local admin, or if non-admins are allowed to install printers/drivers, which is not a good security stance. In my org we have 2 proactive remediations. One runs as system, and toggles the "non-admins can install printers" settings. The other runs as user, and uses Get-Printer/Add-Printer. Once the User PR has been able to add the printers, it sets a flag so that the System PR knows to restrict printer installation to admins again. Yes, Universal Print makes this all go away, but it is not feature complete yet, and is a massive change, and does not fit all use cases.
- Joe_Lurie
Microsoft
Have you looked at Universal Print? https://aka.ms/UniversalPrint- That is the challenge right, long term vs short term. The presentations are great and we want to use new processes with new technologies but to improve adoption we need to solve problems fast and universal print is not something we can do now.
